SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Darren Waterston: Notes from the Air
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2019
Vistas
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Eventide
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2018
Ecstatic Landscape
DC Moore Gallery, NY

Studio Wall: Some Trees
DC Moore Gallery, NY

2017
Architectonic Forms
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016
Topos
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

New Work
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre
Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Pavo
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2014
Uncertain Beauty
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

Split the Lark
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Cadence
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2013
Ravens and Ruins
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Stabat Mater
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures, Legion of Honor
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

A Compendium of Creatures
Poet’s House, New York, NY

2012
Remote Futures
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Forest Eater
Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Kingdom
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Recent Work
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010
Anatomies
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

New Monotypes
Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA

2009
Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA

Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Recent Editions
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

2008
Aurora
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Last Days
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
Parlor
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Constellations: Paintings by Darren Waterston and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Fugue
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2006
Was and Is Not and Is to Come
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA

Hyle
Galerie Jan-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France

2005
Turning Back In
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Paintings
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Notations
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Delirium
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN

Chimera
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Thirteen Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Scapes
Bellevue Arts Museum, WA

Ghosts
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Infatuated River
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Works on Paper
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002
Works on Paper
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

New Work
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

New Paintings
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Recent Paintings
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2001
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Seven Heavens
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000
New Works on Paper
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Paintings
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Through the Arch
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Monoprints & Works On Paper
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999
Recent Works
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

In the Reeds and Rushes
Fresno Art Museum, CA

1998
New Works: Paintings and Works on Paper
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Paintings
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

New Paintings
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

1997
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Recent Marshes and Fields
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

KOPAC, Seoul, Korea

1996
Recent Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Elegies
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1993
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Paintings
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1992
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Elegies
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA

1991
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Fresno Art Museum, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2018
The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded-Age Glamour
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Night Walk
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Line Up
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Boundless Nature: Real and Imagined
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Art AIDS America
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Luscious
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT

Bird in Hand
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2015
Animal Tales
The British Library, London, UK

Alchemy
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Art AIDS America
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

47th Collector’s Show & Sale
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2014
Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Initial Public Offering: New Works from the SJMA’s Permanent Collection
San Jose Museum of Art, CA

2013
The Land Before and After Time
Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, NY

The Hogarth Experiment
Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA

2012
New Prints: Gallery Artists
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Beasts of Revelation
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Eastern Traditions/Western Expressions
Boise Art Museum, ID

2011
Seattle As Collector
Seattle Art Museum, WA

Wild Kingdom
School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Never the Same Twice
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

SUBstainability
School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

2010
Material Evidence: A Phenomenology of Matter
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

3 + 3
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Calling Beauty
Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, OH

Crossing: Falling: Watching: Throwing
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

25th Anniversary Show
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Made in the U.S.A.
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009
Altered States: The Collection in Context
Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa, Napa, CA

Work on Paper
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

2008
15 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

The Surrealist Impulse: New Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection
Tacoma Art Museum, WA

New Acquisitions 2008
Portland Art Museum, OR

Fresh Impressionism
Seattle Art Museum, WA

2007
Animal Rites
David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA

On Paper
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
Altered Image
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Extreme Abstraction
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France

Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

Director’s Choice
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Magnolia Editions: Woven Transcriptions
Fresno Art Museum, CA

2005
Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions: Woven Works by Contemporary Artists
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2004
Representing Landscape
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

Weaving Weft and Warp: Tapestries from Magnolia Editions
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA

The Big Spin
Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

Mindscape
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2003
Downtown Stomp Around
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Darren Waterston & Beatrice Wood: A Personal Alchemy
Bellevue Arts Museum, WA

The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 A.D.
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Works on Paper
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002
Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

High Art: Art of the Bank of America Tower
Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA

Sweet & Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Representing Landscape
University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, CA

Contemporary American Art
Embassy of the United States, Vienna, Austria

2001
Collector’s Show
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Amused: Humor in Contemporary Art
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

Fast Forward
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, CA

Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection
Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA

New Location and Inaugural Exhibition
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Bluer
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

A Gift of Light and Time
Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA

Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature/The Impact of Science
The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY

A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

10
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Recent Inventory Additions
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Distant Echoes
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

The Great Drawing Show, 1550 to 1999
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants
Tweed Museum ofArt, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN. Traveled to: Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1998
A-Z Works on Paper
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

The Winter Show
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Divining Nature
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Recent Acquisitions and New Work
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Recent Gallery Acquisitions
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1997
Distant Bodies
LA Artcore Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA

Summer Previews
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Out of Eden
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997
Oceanside Museum of Art, CA

Collector’s Show
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Contemporary Masters
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Anatomy of a Print
Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

1996
Collector’s Show
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Summer Show
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Previews
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Matters of the Heart
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Master Classes: What classifies an artist as Master?
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995
The Traditional Impulse
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Under Glass
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Metaphors
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

Terrain
SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA

From Nature
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Previews
Charles Cowles, New York, NY

Project Exhibit
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1994
The Sacred and The Profane
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Peaceable Kingdom
Babcock Galleries, New York, NY

Flora: In Artists’ Gardens
San Francisco Community Arts, 400 South Hope Street Associates, Los Angeles, CA

The Art Cup
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1993
Stealth
Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA

School Days
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Layered Look
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA

The Surface of the Sign
University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA

1992
Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Art and Nature
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

1991
Encaustic
Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA

LACE Sixth Annual
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA

The Edge of Night
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA

1988
Artworks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Artist Awards Exhibition
Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA

Illustration Award Show
Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA

Fine Arts Building Small Edition Book Show, Los Angeles, CA

Foot and Shoe Show
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA

1987
Books Without Bounds
Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA

Amnesty International Poster Awards Show, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY

Art from the Page: Bookworks
Salem Art Association, OR

Onyx Café, Los Angeles, CA

1988
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
BFA

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Munster, Germany